The table export tool produces denormalized, tab-separated output from the rows of an EntityTablePanel — to the clipboard or to a file — and is available in the table popup menu’s Export…​ submenu.

What sets it apart from a plain copy is foreign key traversal: the export dialog presents the entity’s attributes as a tree, where each foreign key expands into the attributes of the referenced entity, recursively. Including Track → Album → Artist → Name exports the artist name as a column alongside the track’s own attributes — denormalized flat output from normalized data, without writing a query.

1. Using it

  • The attribute tree is navigated with the keyboard; SPACE toggles whether an attribute is included.

  • Foreign key nodes expand on demand, so cyclic references are a non-issue — expansion goes as deep as you take it.

  • The export covers the selected rows or all rows.

  • Output goes to the clipboard or a .tsv file, ready for a spreadsheet.

2. Configurations

An export configuration — the included attributes, their order and the target — can be named, saved and opened later, and reappears in the export dialog as long as the configuration file exists. The active configuration is saved in user preferences on application exit, so a routinely used export is a two-keystroke affair.

3. Enabling

The export tool is excluded by default, and enabled globally via the EntityTablePanel.Config.INCLUDE_EXPORT configuration value or per panel:

EntityTablePanel.Config.INCLUDE_EXPORT.set(true);

The underlying model, EntityExport, is UI-independent and can be used to produce the same output programmatically.